Subject: Re: conditional XSL to XSL From: "Michael J. Hudson" <mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:49:18 -0400 |
Jeff Lansing wrote: > > Following a suggestion of David Carlisle, regarding another poster's > question, to "drop out of xpath, to xslt", I can now solve this problem with: > > <x:template match="el"> > <x:variable name="match-value"> > <x:if test="@attr = 'x'">tr[@class='title']</x:if> > <x:if test="not(@attr = 'x')">tr[@class='title' and position() > 1]</x:if> > > </x:variable> > <xsl:template match="{$match-value}"> > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> > <!--whole bunch of other complicated stuff--> > </xsl:template> > </x:template> Something to add to what you wrote above... you could actually get rid of the need for the variable match-value altogether by using the 'attribute' command, which actually cleans up the code a bit as well... thus: <x:template match="el"> <xsl:template> <x:attribute name="match"> <x:if test="@attr = 'x'">tr[@class='title']</x:if> <x:if test="not(@attr = 'x')">tr[@class='title' and position() > 1]</x:if> </x:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> <!--whole bunch of other complicated stuff--> </xsl:template> </x:template> Now, I know... it was already figured out that the use of the variable within the match attribute wasn't the problem in the first place... but, I just thought that this solution might give some ideas of other ways that you could do this as well. ------------------------------------- Michael J. Hudson Software/Framework Engineer mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cell-phone: 703.932.6412 voice-mail: 703.827.0638 ext. 4786 fax: 703.734.0987 Blueprint Technologies "The E-Solution Architect" http://www.blueprinttech.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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